Cloud DevOps Engineer
Paris, 75, FR
ABOUT CFM
Founded in 1991, we are a global quantitative and systematic asset management firm applying a scientific approach to finance to develop alternative investment strategies that create value for our clients.
We value innovation, dedication, collaboration, and the ability to make an impact. Together, we create a stimulating environment for talented and passionate experts in research, technology, and business to explore new ideas and challenge existing assumptions.
ABOUT THE ROLE
In collaboration with the Research teams, the Front Prediction team develops and maintains the ‘Prediction’ (Alpha generation) platform used to generate trading decisions.
As a Cloud DevOps Engineer (specialising in AWS), you will play a key role in adapting our existing programmes, deploying and managing our cloud infrastructures on AWS, and participating in the development of the team's various technical stacks.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Developing and automating deployment and continuous integration (CI/CD) processes on AWS.
- Optimising the performance of applications hosted on AWS and guaranteeing their availability.
- Configuring and managing AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, etc.) to meet project requirements.
- Working with development teams to improve delivery cycles and product quality.
- Ensuring the security of AWS environments by implementing IAM and security management best practices.
- Monitoring AWS environments to ensure performance and compliance with security standards.
- Developing, updating and maintaining the team's technical components (calculation distribution, memory management, etc.);
- Contributing to the design of the technical and application architecture;
- Participating in the technological transformation of the Prediction platform (Cloud in particular);
- Working to optimise the performance and reliability of the Prediction platform;
- Develop tools to facilitate the team's activities (e.g. pre-production checks, analysis of anomalies in production, comparison of results/performance, etc.);
- Updating applications as part of periodic version upgrades (internal distribution of data science, OS/security patch updates, etc.);
- Automate and improve production testing and deployment processes and tools;
SKILLS
You are a passionate engineer with a scientific degree, ideally with initial experience in market finance (equity / futures / high-frequency trading). You have high work ethics, and :
- Good communication skills and a strong team spirit
- Good command of English
- Experience dealing with production applications
- A constant desire to improve what already exists
- A significant professional experience as a DevOps Engineer, with proven expertise on AWS.
- Solid scripting skills for automation (Python, Bash, AWS CLI).
In addition, you are familiar with :
- the automation and configuration management tools specific to AWS (AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodePipeline, etc.).
- AWS security practices and compliance frameworks (CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark, AWS Well-Architected Framework).
- Jenkins and Docker CI/CD and containerisation tools.
- Git
Finally,
- Linux is your natural environment
- You are keen to ensure an excellent level of code quality, testing and user support
- A good knowledge of Pandas is a plus
- Ideally you are familiar with Oracle and SQL queries
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES STATEMENT
We are continuously striving to be an equal opportunity employer and we prohibit any discrimination based on sex, disability, origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, race, or religion. We believe that our diversity, breadth of experience, and multiple points of view are among the leading factors in our success.
CFM is a signatory of the Women Empowerment Principles.
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